Emperor Zhao has brought disgrace upon himself!

He had the Privy Council moved to the Yushan camp early on, and asked the two ministers of the capital to divide the capital into two parts in Nanyang and Xiangyang. He also personally sat in the army, looking as if he was facing a powerful enemy but was quite decisive.

In fact, on his first day in the camp, he repeatedly said something like "it won't take long" in public in the barracks.

However, the Jin army was nowhere to be seen throughout July. By August, all parts of Henan had completed the deployment of troops and the deployment of city defenses. Even Li Yanxian's troops, which were in the most dangerous situation, received two shipments of weapons and gunpowder from Nanyang, but the main force of the Jin army still did not cross the river... In a trance, not to mention the ministers in Nanyang, even the front-line generals and Emperor Zhao himself thought that the Jin army would not come. It can even be said that the imperial edict was an extremely effective strategic deception.

In early August, news finally came, which confirmed that the Jin emperor's edict was indeed valid, but it also brought shame to Emperor Zhao and the entire Nanyang Central Government.

It turned out that the Jin army did not fail to take immediate action. They took decisive action in early July, but from that time on, they encountered a strong counterattack from the entire Hebei righteous army... Compared with the thriving situation in Nanyang, since the Jin people regarded Hebei as their confidant, they had migrated a large number of Jin Meng'an and Mouke to various places since last year. The Jin nobles came to Hebei to seize good farmland, livestock and population. In addition, due to the aftermath of last year's war, Hebei was basically in a state of economic collapse and people were displaced, and resistance was constant.

As for the 200,000 Jin troops who went south this time, they were about to resettle the Meng'an and Mouke in various places in Hebei and carried out large-scale, formal and spontaneous plundering of Hebei for the first time. The backward system and barbaric style of the Jin Kingdom doomed this levy to be brutal and destructive.

You have to know that the Han people are not two-legged sheep. Even if they were two-legged sheep, they would have to cry out, kick a few times, and bite a few times before being slaughtered, right?

As a result, the Jin army's work of gathering troops fell into difficulties from the very beginning, and the Hebei volunteer army grew stronger again... In fact, if Emperor Zhao really had enough revolutionary consciousness and revolutionary knowledge, he should have been awakened by the Hedong Red Turban Army that suddenly emerged and defected to the big and small Zhai.

But no matter what, it was not only the corrupt ruling class of the Song Dynasty who ignored the power of the people, but the Jin people also paid a bloody price for it... After determining the general plan of the marching route, Nianhan himself led a small force south from Yanjing to Damingfu to take charge. As a result, he encountered a group of rebels on the way and was almost captured. He had to flee back to Yanjing in a panic and only then did he march south after changing to a large force.

By mid-July, the Jin troops outside the Great Wall and Youyan had gathered together. Not only had the Meng'an and Mouke troops in various parts of Hebei arrived, but even three military and prefectural capitals in Hebei had been lost!

With no other options, Wanyan Erlido, the third prince of the Jin Dynasty, as the "military garrison" of Yanjing, could only lead the assembled troops from outside the Great Wall and Youyan to embark on a mopping-up journey from north to south, which was part of the original plan but unexpectedly difficult.

It was not until late July that they finally defeated the 200,000-strong Wumashan rebel army led by Zhao Zhen, the Deputy Marshal of the Army and Prince of Xin, in Zhending Prefecture, Hebei, not far from Yanjing.

However, I wonder if anyone still remembers someone's advice on the Huai River, which is the so-called "don't seek field battles or reckless battles, but seek to preserve strength for future response"... Anyway, Erlido never captured any Prince Xin afterwards, nor did he meet the actual leader of the Wumashan, their old friend of the Great Jin Kingdom, the so-called General Manager of the Northern Road of the Great Song Dynasty, Ma Kuo and Ma Zi Chong.

In fact, just three days later, news of Ma Kuo and Prince Xin came again from the northern foothills of Taihang Mountains west of Zhending. Then, countless remnants of the defeated army followed the news and fled into Taihang Mountains. The momentum was instantly revived, making the previous battle more like a necessary cover for a strategic shift than a battle.

The Jin army, which had just won a great victory, was discouraged by this... For the cavalry from Liaodong and Youyan, fighting on flat ground is one thing, but fighting in the mountains is another.

In fact, the commanders of the Jin army had another dispute. Some suggested dividing the troops to lock the northern Taihang Mountains and continue to move south to deal with the Eight Character Army; some suggested abandoning everything and ignoring the Song Guoyi Army in the mountains, and immediately sending troops after sweeping the plains; of course, some suggested surrender... In this regard, the actual commander of the Jin army, the third prince Wanyan Erlido, was caught in a dilemma. When an unexpected autumn rain arrived, the situation was completely delayed.

"I thought that if I really saw the Ma family master on the battlefield, I would pretend not to see him and let him go because of the friendship we had in Liaodong. I would just go and capture that Prince Xin. Who would have thought that the master who was so kind in the past would be so cunning now." In the main hall of a nearly empty mansion in Zhending City, there were only two people drinking together. Among them, the third prince of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Erliduo, looked at the wine and meat in front of him and listened to the sound of autumn rain in the courtyard. He just felt bored. "Fourth brother, you were still young at that time, do you still remember him?"

"How can you not remember?"

Wanyan Wushu raised his buttocks and squinted at the door. Outside the open door, due to the raging autumn rain, no one was out at all. Even some trusted guards were allowed to hide in the porch to drink. "I still remember that day when he shot an arrow, our father turned around and said to Nianhan that as long as there is one person like Ma Kuo among the 100 young officials of Song State, they must abide by the covenant..."

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